The Half-life of Secrets, A Golden Age of Surveillance, and the US Military’s Starship Enterprise

Leading privacy and cyberlaw scholar Peter Swire joins New America’s
Peter Singer and Passcode’s Sara Sorcher to talk about the difficulty of
keeping secrets in the Digital Age, the differences between the East
and West Coast’s views on the Edward Snowden leaks, and what’s still
needed to reform US surveillance practices. Swire, a professor at
Georgia Institute of Technology who also served on President Obama’s
Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, says we’re
living in a Golden Age of Surveillance – and that law enforcement is not
actually “going dark” in its pursuit of criminals and terrorists but
actually has more available data than ever before.

Rick Howard,
chief security officer for Palo Alto Networks and Army veteran, weighs
in on the line between spying for economic advantage and state secrets;
whether companies should be able to strike back when they’re under
cyberattack; and if proposed threat information sharing plans will be
effective. He also shares stories about how the military, in the early
days of cybersecurity, took a stab at recreating science fiction.